Terrorism and Crime

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Turkey’s top appeals court blocks extradition of drug trafficker to Sweden

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US lawsuit exposes Turkey-based Ponzi scheme tied to Syrian opposition figure

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Turkey did not perform autopsies, crime scene investigation for coup victims

Turkish investigators neither conducted autopsies on victims nor tested suspects for gun shot residue in the murder of 10...

Military

Turkish opposition slams gov’t for failing to free captive troops, policemen

January 4, 2019

The Turkish opposition has accused the government of failing to do anything to free soldiers and police officers who...

Profile of an al-Qaeda-linked militant as a member of Turkey’s ruling party

Abdullah Bozkurt Militants of a Turkish al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group have been operating under the auspices of the country’s ruling Justice...

Turkish intel agency-linked jihadist charity IHH spotted operating in Greece

Controversial jihadist-linked Turkish charity group the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) has been spotted...

Turkish minister urges police to take extrajudicial measures against drug dealers

January 2, 2019

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has repeated his much-criticized remark ordering police to break the legs of drug dealers,...

Turkey’s interior minister tries to derail probe into murder of Russian ambassador

January 9, 2021

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu, who is in charge of the police force, the main law enforcement agency in...

The tale of an arms-laden truck bound for al-Qaeda transported by Turkey’s intel agency

Exactly four years ago today, the Turkish government was caught making an illegal arms transfer to jihadist groups in...

Extremism

Convicted Hizb ut-Tahrir member released in Turkey

December 31, 2018

Yılmaz Çelik, a 49-year-old convicted member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, was released after the Constitutional Court, under the control of...

Story of the newspaper Erdogan killed for exposing ISIL arms transfer

The attack on the free, independent and opposition media in Turkey by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is...